On last night’s underwhelming Saturday Night Live season finale, former SNL head writer/star/Weekend Update anchor Tina Fey gave the people what they wanted to see, stepping back into the Alaskan accent and pageant hair of former Vice Presidential candidate and current Bass Pro Shop shill Sarah Palin. (If you wanted…
Variety reports that an anonymous actress has accused director Luc Besson of committing a “violent sexual assault” against her. The actress—who’s asked that her name not be revealed to the press—has apparently worked with the Valerian and Lucy director on at least two occasions. Earlier today, Variety confirmed with…
The 71st Cannes International Film Festival wrapped up earlier this afternoon, with a closing ceremony that saw Spike Lee take home the festival’s Grand Prix (a.k.a. “second place”), while Japanese family drama Shoplifters snagged the coveted Palme d’Or.
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Although she acted for many years, on both stage and screen, Catherine E. Coulson—who died in 2015, just days after filming her final scenes for the revived Twin Peaks— was best known for her association with director David Lynch. The two met on the set of Lynch’s first film, Eraserhead, where Coulson—then married to…
Actress Meghan Markle—best known to American audiences for the seven seasons she spent on USA’s Suits—signed a contract this week to join one of the planet’s longest-running reality shows, making a public appearance today affirming her commitment to a co-starring role in The British Royal Family. Unlike most reality…
Brooklyn Nine-Nine made extensive headlines last week with its sudden sitcom Lazarus act, moving from “beloved fifth-season comedy series” to “unjustly canceled martyr” to “proud member of the NBC fall line-up” in the span of just 24 hours. But where does this sudden burst of Nine-Nine interest leave everybody who’s…
On his show, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, the comedian and former Daily Show correspondent has dedicated himself to an entire season of trying to truly understand America’s gun problem. Like Cenac himself, the series is wry, thoughtful, and rational, as well as deeply pissed off, with Friday’s installment looking at…
Confirming what we’ve always known deep down—that nobody gives a shit about hearing about your dreams, even if they’re shared visions blending the walls of reality and fiction—USA has finally shut the tap on its two-season supernatural drama Falling Water.
Among other things, Marvel’s Luke Cage was notable for its excellent soundtrack, both in and out of universe. Beyond the songs that simply appeared in the show—including an original score by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest—the show’s first season also featured numerous appearances from…
One of the main creative voices behind ABC’s surprisingly successful Roseanne revival is stepping away from the series, with Variety reporting that comedian Whitney Cummings is leaving her co-showrunner role on the series. According to Cummings, she’s departing the show—which has already been revived for what’s…
Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans have accomplished a whole heck of a lot in the last month or so. Not only did our outcry over Fox’s cancellation of the beloved sitcom result in the series returning to its corporate birthplace, NBCUniversal, for a sixth season, but the couple we only recently started ’shipping might become a…
Earlier this month, Netflix announced that comedian Michelle Wolf—of Daily Show and White House Correspondents Dinner fame/infamy (delete as appropriate to your personal feelings on Sarah Sanders’ smoky eye)—would be getting her own show on the service. The Break will serve as the service’s latest attempt to get…
We’ve learned a few things about the upcoming Captain Marvel film starring Brie Larson, from the cast to the characters to some elements of the plot. And while we knew the period piece (it’s set in the archaic time of the 1990s) was going to deliver an origin story for the titular hero, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Clark…
There are many, many animals on the internet each week, but you are busy and can only click on so much. And yet it’s hard to go into the weekend thinking: Could I have done better? Were there animals that deserved my internet traffic that did not receive it? In this important recurring feature, we recap some of the…
Like some sort of sexy, sword-wielding lion creature, trying to knock off a cartoon mummy’s head, Cartoon Networks is taking another swing at this whole ThunderCats thing. Per Entertainment Weekly, the network just announced a new series, ThunderCats Roar, which promises a lighter, more comedic take on the ’80s…
It’s Friday afternoon, meetings are wrapping up, the inbox has been cleaned out a touch, and let’s be honest: Your productivity from now until the end of the day is going to be garbage, as you alternately check social media and see what times Deadpool 2 is playing this weekend, all while the low-level ennui…
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You know what they say about making a classic sitcom: If the ratings for your genially inoffensive family sitcom aren’t quite as high as you’d like them to be, cold-bloodedly murder the wife in between seasons and then shrug off the explanation in the first episode back with a joke about kung-fu lessons.
For anyone who wishes that the White House would actually possess a great sense of humor—and also finally fulfill America’s long-unrealized dream of a chicken in every pot and a case of SmartWater in every fridge—Tig Notaro and Jennifer Aniston are here to make your dreams come true. In the movies, at least.
